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Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions
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Abstract
Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the soci... view more
Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights? What images of shock or identification does one generate - and what images would be desirable?... view less
Keywords
museum; exhibition; war; conflict; violence; cultural history; culture of remembrance
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
Museology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
223 p.
Series
Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum, 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839423066
ISBN
978-3-8394-2306-6
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0